Innovating the Future of Learning
The future of learning for children will become child centric, each child a super hero with their own unique super powers. The more individual we can be, the more we can follow our own unique passions, the more we can unleash our own brilliant, creative genius, the more society at large will thrive. Happiness and fulfilment will be at the top of the measurement scales and each child will design their own unique pathway through all the learning options. The student will become the director of their own pathway and potential and the teacher an assisting guide on that journey. These guides will assist with the unleashing of individual genius combined with the ability to think outside the box, to understand how to tap the flow of limitless possibilities ... all of which will lead us to a more vibrant and innovative society.
Homework will disappear and passion projects will take their place. The marking of grades will disappear forever and every child will assess their own progress with the teacher/guide an empowerment player in that assessment. Experiential learning will take precedence over constant book learning and memorisation tests. For example, outdoor learning experiences will most likely include things like growing a school garden vegetable plot and nature days to learn about the natural world. We'll no longer be preparing children to enter an 8 am to 8 pm workplace, stuck in an office, commuting in large numbers, taking hours a day to get to work. Learning will be reoriented to preparing our future entrepreneurs and innovators to make the world ever more wondrous, each from their own unique genius and passions.
It is very likely post global lockdown 2020 we will see a lot more home schooling happening, including pods of neighbourhood parents collaborating to bring innovative, experiential, unleashed learning to their children in ways that also suit the working needs of the parents. But as the current educational model adapts to a more child / passion centric approach, I would imagine that more children will return to 'school' as it will be so much fun to learn like that alongside others.
Homework will disappear and passion projects will take their place. The marking of grades will disappear forever and every child will assess their own progress with the teacher/guide an empowerment player in that assessment. Experiential learning will take precedence over constant book learning and memorisation tests. For example, outdoor learning experiences will most likely include things like growing a school garden vegetable plot and nature days to learn about the natural world. We'll no longer be preparing children to enter an 8 am to 8 pm workplace, stuck in an office, commuting in large numbers, taking hours a day to get to work. Learning will be reoriented to preparing our future entrepreneurs and innovators to make the world ever more wondrous, each from their own unique genius and passions.
It is very likely post global lockdown 2020 we will see a lot more home schooling happening, including pods of neighbourhood parents collaborating to bring innovative, experiential, unleashed learning to their children in ways that also suit the working needs of the parents. But as the current educational model adapts to a more child / passion centric approach, I would imagine that more children will return to 'school' as it will be so much fun to learn like that alongside others.
In the case of higher education, we'll be seeking and seeding innovation in new topics, as opposed to heavily researched topics that seek to make improvements on the past. We'll be thrilling to the concepts of new ideas and new fields of endeavour. I imagine that apprenticeships will take priority over university degrees as experiential learning will replace many of the older, weightier and more expensive forms of learning. And as these young people will have been trained at an early age in the art of entrepreneurship, it's most likely that we'll see a burst of innovative, free styling businesses emerge that make a great difference in their communities and in the world at large.
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